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To: Para-Ord.45
Fifth, Lincoln began the campaign to Northernize the South. Everything unique about the traditional Southern way of life was stamped out by the anti-Jeffersonian Lincoln: its simpler, agrarian tradition, its anti-industrialism, and its disdain of the North’s Philistine materialism.

Sociology from the pages of Gone with the Wind. In truth the Southern philistines who called the shots were so into making money that they wouldn't stop the lucrative cotton planting long enough to direct their slave labor to grow food to feed the despised "white trash" and their families who were doing the slave owners' fighting for them.

7 posted on 06/23/2013 6:21:02 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

The planters suffered from the delusion they were aristocrats, and they were the closest we ever got in this country.

As with all aristocrats down through history, they professed a noble disdain for filthy lucre, while being at least as greedy for it as the northern merchants and mechanics they despised.

Anybody who bases their “way of life” on permanent kidnapping, torture and rape of other people thoroughly deserves to have their way of life destroyed. IMO.


9 posted on 06/23/2013 6:26:44 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

You Coven boys are starting to get slammed pretty hard lately. Looks like the effort to unreconstruct history of the late “unpleasantness” is catching on.


10 posted on 06/23/2013 6:26:48 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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